Article 19 vs social media on February 19, 2020Article 19 of the Constitution of Pakistan, while nurturing freedom of speech, vocally establishes: “Every citizen shall have the right to freedom of speech and expression, and there shall be freedom of the press, subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law in the interest of the glory of Islam or the integrity, security or […]
Omens of Public Executions for our Society on February 16, 2020Punish one and fear a dozen and such punishment mechanism ensure not only creating constraint element of law but also the social output of any legal system. The social effect of any punishment is important in checking the crime rates. When the punishments are offered in public, this adds to the punitive aesthetics which get […]
Democracy, liberty and political corporations on February 2, 2020Once upon a time, in a far off land, there was a nation that cobbled together a state, ideated to base on the cornerstones of democracy, social justice, equality and liberty. They paid the price for the great rebellion with many lives but their glamorous aspirations turned into sorry apprehensions. Sadly, the dreams envisaged by […]
Information warfare, the youth and our felonious nescience on January 30, 2020The realm of information warfare is ripe and hot. The enemies are invisibly making inroads into our amorphous state cores and attempting to bewilder the Idea of Pakistan. Of all the numerous threats popping up of this warfare, the most vulnerable and fragile targets are the potential youth of the country. Of various spoils of […]
The breaking Davos Breakfast on January 25, 2020Imran Khan is instrumental, charismatic and influential. He has a heart that truly beats for and with the people. But he is in a wrong business with wrong people. Imran Khan is above Pakistani fashioned politics. He is meant for something else, something more humanistic and grandeur. If only Imran Khan had not stepped into […]
What role should media play? on January 25, 2020Pre-2002 Pakistan was, or rather seemed, more peaceful and less sinful, more humane and less savage, and definitely more orderly and less chaotic for the common citizen. Then came the transformation. The advent and consequential liberalisation of print and electronic media coupled with social media regimes transformed the social peace into a frenzied chaos. The […]
Resilient but not persistent on January 21, 2020Resilience is the ability to get back into shape from a difficulty or hard time. No matter how densely we have been through thick and thin, despair and forlornness have never been our traits as a nation. There have been the darkest of times, but we emerged from those disappointments with flying colours. That makes […]
Evolution and survival of SCO on January 20, 2020The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is an alliance of complexity. With a unique combination of states, the organisation is the largest in the world by means of geographic coverage, and hosting more than half of the global population. SCO is but a hard nut to crack. On the grey side, it has to undergo severe […]
The right, the left and the state on January 17, 2020Rightists and leftists are interchanging misnomers in Pakistan’s historiography; condensed into one another on different occasions in different circumstances with similarly different ends. With such a scenario, sometimes, the leftists are our staunch adversaries, whereas at times, we more than just glorify the extreme rightists. This continues even unto this date and the state of […]
Apocalyptic Hindutva on January 11, 2020A fatuous faux is happening in South Asia, which is going to jolt the Modi’s “Hindu-India.” Something that is thousands of years old is being failingly converted into something else. It is secularism that is being metamorphosed into Hindutva. India will tumble down, should it mutate into Hindutva. Modi’s dreams would turn India into a […]